Good Evening All Last Saturday Tom Tarrant showed me around his local patch in the Samford Valley area and we noticed a commotion going on in a gumtree away from the road, at first we saw a full adult Channel-billed Cuckoo hanging vertically off the bill of another one and then they tumbled to the … Read more
Gooday birders Thought you might like something on the lighter side of birding. Two vultures were in the desert eating a dead clown. The first vulture asks the second vulture: “Does this taste funny to you?” How do you get down off an elephant? You don’t! You get down off a duck. Type “birdwatching jokes” … Read more
Thanks Ian. Just to add to this, I’ve got some information about Mereenie Loop Rd on my trip report site, see http://tim-dolby.blogspot.com/ When I was there last month the Centre was looking stunning. I can highly recommend camping beside the Finke River (near Glen Helen) at the ‘Finke Two Mile Bushcamping Area’. I’ve also just … Read more
Interesting indeed, but their claim is not right. Sure, it’s been proved that there’s a dark morph of the Steller’s, which is something the critics have been arguing about for decades, but it doesn’t actually prove that there was not 2 species of Steller’s Sea Eagle, at one time in the past. Does it? Mark … Read more
Hi everyone, The Hunter Big Year continues. In stark contrast to August, it’s actually great to have something to write about this time! If March was the month that laid the foundation for reaching my Big Year target, then September will be remembered as the month that I really broke its back. … Read more